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Pre-op Gastric Bypass Gastric bypass surgery dates, insurance issues, emotional preparation, etc.

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Old 05-01-2007, 11:06 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation you wont freeking belive it !

well a a few of you know i was supposed to have group health insurance as of today well last friday my mom calls our ins broker to get the numbers for our policy well she could only give us my parents numbers she did not have numbers for us kids what the hell so she said she would look into it , shes not our main agent he was in seattle dealing with his own daughters medical problems . well as it happens while he was there he talked to the hospitals insurance person and said oh i just transferd a costomer from regance blue cross blue sheild to group health she was like why would you do that they make you jump through hoops the comp shes with will cover it.Well he calls us to tell us this and that he will look into it . well we called him again on monday well he informed us we could stay on our original plan same comp he told us that as long as the surgery was medically nessesary they would cover it not matter what so know what i have to o is go see my pcp and get her to write a letter saying that haveing this operation etc would be the best route and is medically nessary for me , with the help of my sergons office i can't belive i went through all this crap since last sept to find out our plan would have worked so now i should be having surgery in sept or october.
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Old 05-01-2007, 11:11 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Make sure tou get it in writing from your contract - no what a rep says over the phone - and once it is approved, make sure you get a copy of the approval faxed to you. I wish you the very best of lick, sweetie!
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Old 05-02-2007, 03:23 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Well.. good luck with it all.. the waiting sucks I can vouch for that.. But it will all be worth it in the end...
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Old 05-02-2007, 04:18 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Great news! Please get everything in writting,which I know you will.

Nice news to wake up to this morning!!

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